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1 August 2021

Guinea: New family of Critically Endangered forest elephants spotted, including three babies

By Megan Shersby, Discover Wildlife Conservationists at Fauna & Flora International (FFI) and Centre Forestier N’Zérékoré are celebrating after their camera traps captured footage of a family of African forest elephants in the Ziama Forest in Guinea. The family had not been seen before by any of the local team, and included three calves. It is thought that less than...
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16 April 2021

African elephant species now Endangered and Critically Endangered – IUCN Red List

By International Union for Conservation of Nature – IUCN Gland, Switzerland, 25 March 2021 (IUCN) – Following population declines over several decades due to poaching for ivory and loss of habitat, the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is now listed as Critically Endangered and the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Before today’s update,...
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